MATE

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mate¹ I. substantiv

(şah) mat.

mate¹ II. verb tranzitiv

a face met; a spune „şah-mat” (cuiva), a da mat (cuiva).

mate² I. substantiv

1. tovarăş, coleg, camarad; însoţitor; (fam.) prieten sau coleg de şcoală; prieten, amic.

2. pereche; tovarăş sau tovarăşă de viaţă; soţ; soţie.

3. (zool.) bărbătuş; femelă.

4. (mar.) ofiţer (pe vasele comerciale);

first / chief mate secund;

second mate locotenent;

third mate locotenent second;

the master and the mates căpitanul şi ofiţerii.

5. ajutor; asistent; preparator; laborant; calfă;

cook's mate ajutor de bucătar.

6. (amer.) pereche (a unui obiect);

these shoes are not mates aceşti pantofi nu sunt pereche / nu sunt din aceeaşi pereche.

7. (ferov.) a) ajutor de cantonier; b) hamal şef.

8. (tehn.) plasă ajustată / pereche.

mate² II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a lega / a uni (prin căsătorie), a căsători.

2. a lega, a uni, a împreuna.

3. (zool.) a împerechea.

4. (tehn.) a lega, a cupla; a angrena, a îmbuca; a agăţa.

mate² II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se lega prin căsătorie, a se căsători;

to mate with smb. a se căsători cu cineva.

2. a se lega, a se uni, a se împreuna.

3. (zool.) a se împerechea.

4. (tehn.) a se lega, a se cupla; a se îmbuca, a se angrena.

5. (with) a comunica (cu), a avea legătură (cu), a ţine de urât / tovărăşie / companie (cu dat.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Well, never mind; you’re mate just the same.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Thirty days from the time it left Dawson, the Salt Water Mail, with Buck and his mates at the fore, arrived at Skaguay.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

A mate should keep himself to himself—shouldn't drink with the men before the mast!

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

His mate looked at him anxiously.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The two mates had both been seized by the crew, and the whole business seemed to be settled.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth till we land. On 6 July we finished taking in cargo, silver sand and boxes of earth. At noon set sail. East wind, fresh. Crew, five hands ... two mates, cook, and myself (captain).

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

What you and the mate there are going to do to me, sir.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Now, is my mate Bill in this here house?

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

One Eye ran ahead cautiously, his mate at his heels.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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